WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in SHIRLEY, New York, overseen by WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 757 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 71% bigger than typical.

WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 schools operated by WILLIAM FLOYD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 9,386 students overall.

Demographically, WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 27% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -15.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

WILLIAM FLOYD LEARNING CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 746 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 47% to 27%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.